All rights reserved © SkySparc AB INDUSTRY: State Treasury SOLUTIONS: SkySparc Patch Upgrade As-A-Service SUCCESS STORY CHALLENGE As an extensive WSS user, DSTA wished to minimize the cost, risk and time inherently involved in upgrading at irregular, long intervals, starting with its upgrade to version 7.4.57. “Rather than exposing our operations to the pain and uncertainty of a major upgrade project every four to five years, we wanted to explore the possibility of adopting a continual cycle that would enable us upgrade smoothly, without adverse impact on users,” says DSTA’s Johan Kreszner. Although patch upgrades are a necessary ‘fact of life’ that keep complex systems secure and current, they rarely add significant functionality benefit to end- users, akin to an annual c

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